Posted on 02/23/2007 6:45:23 PM PST by amchugh
Until she came to Houston's Renaissance Hospital two weeks ago, Renee Williams hadn't left her bed in three years. It took eight people to get her in and out of the ambulance. At her first weigh-in at the hospital, she tipped 850 pounds.
Williams this week became what's thought to be the largest female patient to undergo laparoscopic gastric bypass surgery, the increasingly popular solution to morbid obesity. Her doctor said he's optimistic her weight may drop to as low as 200 pounds in two years.
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when she lays around the house, she LAYS around the house.
She's so fat, even her blue jeans have stretch marks.
"I didn't realize I was gaining weight as fast as I was," said Williams, who in October won a $1.5 million settlement against the driver and restaurant where he'd been drinking.....
A year and a half ago, when the scale hit 873, Williams decided to have the procedure.....
Nowzaradan(the surgeon) previously had performed the surgery on five people who weighed more than 600 pounds. He said that Williams' surgery was technically difficult and time consuming, but that it went smoothly....
Renaissance Hospital, a small hospital whose bariatric program has received Center of Excellence accreditation from the American Society for Bariatric Surgery, said Williams' stay should cost between $100,000 to $150,000, some of which the hospital will write off as charity. Williams is paying the rest through a trust fund set up from the settlement.
There was a story in the news a year or two ago about a woman who hadn't gotten off the couch in quite a while, and her skin had literally bonded with the upholstery.
She made the news because some sort of medical problem came up and she had to be taken to the hospital.
The paramedics couldn't get her off the sofa; they had to have a hole cut in the wall so they could take her and the sofa to the hospital as a unit.
She died a short time later.
You're right about the diet. If a person's too fat to get up and get food, whoever brings them food from that point on oughta be ashamed of themselves.
True that someone enabled her. However, at that size only a nutrition doctor should recommend a diet. A lot of over 500lb individuals are relatively (for their size) healthy until they go on a crash diet and lose too much muscle mass. Then they die within months.
Jerry Springer used to have these morbidly obese people on his show.I think one guy tipped the scale at over 1000 lbs.They removed his bedroom wall and used a forklift to get him onto a flatbed truck.Insanity.
You would think when she had to start going through doors sideways it might have tipped her off !!! :-)
Shaking my head. I just hope the children she has aren't going to weigh close to 300 pounds in the 7th grade. I hope it works out for her. My neighbor had it done & he looks great but he spends quite a bit of time at the gym now & he has to have his skin fixed. I just don't know you could lay in bed and not get up to shower or go out.... Prayers for her. ~P~
In the picture, there is a shot of her boyfriend. Ewww. What gets me is:
"Williams' stay should cost between $100,000 to $150,000, some of which the hospital will write off as charity. Williams is paying the rest through a trust fund set up from the settlement."
She could pay for the whole thing with the settlement money if her boyfriend had been working. Oh wait. I'm sure he isn't.
She received a $1.5 million settlement from a car wreck and the trust fund is only going to cover part of this procedure because the money is reserved for the corrective surgery and therapy that she can't undergo because she is too fat; who's managing the trust fund and how long do they expect her to live?
Who gets the trust fund when she dies?
Who's been manning the shovels on the 450 pounds, both directions, since she got so incredibly large?
When will the world start turning again?
Tune in tomorrow?
She should hopefully have fewer medical interventions required in the future as she loses weight too.
EEEEWWWW.
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